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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com>
Cc: "Johannes Sixt" <j6t@kdbg•org>,
	"Lars Schneider" <lars.schneider@autodesk•com>,
	"Git List" <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	"Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web•de>,
	peff@peff•net, patrick@luehne•de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] convert: add support for 'encoding' attribute
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:11:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzi6mwlai.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D2973852-BDF4-4251-8DE3-CE6AAD303A5F@gmail.com> (Lars Schneider's message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:57:55 +0100")

Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail•com> writes:

> ... In a perfect world I think I would store
> the encoding of a file in the tree object. I didn't pursue that solution
> as this would change the Git data model which would open a can of worms
> for a problem that not that many people have (almost everyone is on
> UTF-8 anyways).

Having that "encoding" trailt recorded in the tree that contains the
blob would mean that the same blob can be recorded with one
"encoding" trait in a tree, and in a different tree it can be
recorded with a different "encoding" trait.  I doubt it really makes
sense.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-13 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-11 15:50 [PATCH v1] convert: add support for 'encoding' attribute lars.schneider
2017-12-11 18:39 ` Eric Sunshine
2017-12-11 23:47   ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-11 23:58     ` Eric Sunshine
2017-12-12 10:58       ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-11 20:47 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-12-11 23:42   ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-12  0:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-12  7:15       ` Johannes Sixt
2017-12-12 10:55         ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-12 19:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-13 17:57             ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-13 18:11               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-12-13 23:02                 ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-14 23:01                   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-12  7:09     ` Johannes Sixt
2017-12-18 10:13   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-12-18 13:12     ` Jeff King
2017-12-23  8:08       ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-12-29 13:28       ` [PATCH/RFC 0/2] git diff --UTF-8 tboegi
2017-12-29 13:28       ` [PATCH/RFC 1/2] convert_to_git(): checksafe becomes an integer tboegi
2017-12-29 13:28       ` [PATCH/RFC 2/2] git diff: Allow to reencode into UTF-8 tboegi
2018-02-26 17:27       ` [PATCH/RFC 1/1] Auto diff of UTF-16 files in UTF-8 tboegi
2018-02-26 18:43         ` Peter Krefting
2018-02-27 22:39         ` Jeff King
2017-12-18 18:02     ` [PATCH v1] convert: add support for 'encoding' attribute Junio C Hamano
2017-12-18 21:55     ` Johannes Sixt
2017-12-15  9:58 ` Jeff King
2017-12-18 10:54   ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-18 12:59     ` Jeff King
2017-12-17 17:14 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-12-28 16:14   ` Lars Schneider
2017-12-29 12:59     ` Torsten Bögershausen
2017-12-29 13:56       ` Lars Schneider
2018-01-03 19:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-01-03 20:45         ` Lars Schneider

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